On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, shane c branch wrote: > this is getting clearer now. can you give me an example of what is > involved in running mkinitrd? i did read the man page, but didn't find > it all that helpful. in a really small nutshell, if you just created a new kernel with ID "2.6.0-test4-bk2" or whatever, running "make modules_install" should create a new directory /lib/modules/<above string> once that's done, something like: # mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.0-test4-bk2.img 2.6.0-test4-bk2 will create your new file in /boot as above. then add the "initrd" string to /etc/grub.conf for that new kernel. rday -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list